An SAP system upgrade prompted Imperial Tobacco Australia Ltd, a top-three Australian tobacco company, to radically upgrade its data storage capability. The SAP upgrade involved moving from a single 'instance' SAP environment to a three level architecture, retaining one server for the SAP database and two dedicated application servers. After assessing the available alternatives, Imperial Tobacco decided on Hitachi Data Systems Thunder 9200 to handle Imperial Tobacco's storage needs based upon various technical, economic and operational considerations.
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